Coffee for a lonely woman - Oulu

This is "my" corner, photo by Tripadvisor. Sunday afternoon was turning into evening, and the options for this lonely woman to have coffee somewhere in Oulu were limited, since almost everything is closed by 18:00. Of the three available choices, I took Café Makia, since I had only been there two more times during the summer. I wanted to see if it would feel any different in a snow storm. Café Makia is relative new, built in one of our city´s most central parks, the Otto Karhi puisto, named after a prominent politician and entrepreneur of previous centuries. It replaced a typical Finnish "kioski", one of these canteens that serve men and women who come out of the bars in the middle of the night with sausages and other such food. Café Makia is not such a place. It belongs to one of the great commercial chains, and it describes its self as cosy with a modern twist. It is indeed modern looking, with all the corners and the strange shapes modern buildings seem t...